Tag: africa
Nigeria And UN Set Up $500m Fund For Distributed Renewable Energy
Nigeria, in partnership with a United Nations agency, has established a $500m target to finance the roll-out of distributed [...]
Morocco Continues to Strengthen Focus on Renewable Energy for Sustainable Growth
For decades, Morocco has been expressing commitment to continue boosting efforts to strengthen its renewable energy assets as the [...]
Mozambique Interested in Renewable Energy Projects
Mozambique’s Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy, Ernesto Max Tonela, noted on Thursday that besides natural gas exploration, the [...]
Nigeria’s Renewable Energy Plans and Policy
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) recently announced plans to strengthen the drive for renewable energy in Nigeria. The [...]
Africa Grapples With Clean Energy Policy Conundrum
Africa is both the world’s least electrified continent and the most vulnerable to climate change. And as the continent [...]
Morocco’s Clean Energy Policy: First Fully Solar-Powered Village
A small village in Morocco, Id Mjahdi, has become the first village on the entire continent of Africa to [...]
France To Fund Innovative Off-Grid Renewables Projects In Africa
The French development agency and the environment ministry have a €1.6 million budget to finance novel off-grid projects from [...]
Kenya Opens Africa’s Largest Wind Power Project
Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta says wind farm will help boost electricity supply and access at lower cost. Kenya has unveiled Africa‘s [...]
Large-Scale Solar Blossoms in Africa
After years of unconverted pipelines, stale financing and cost barriers, utility-scale solar PV in Africa has started to spring [...]
New Horizons for Renewable Energies in Morocco and Africa
Morocco has a strategic location in the North West of the African continent and is only 14 kilometers from [...]